A twin-engine plane crashed shortly after taking off from Catalina Airport in Avalon Tuesday night, Oct. 8, killing all five people on board, authorities said.

A tiny dachshund turned heads in Santa Monica recently, being held as it was by a cartoonishly oversized chain. Juliet Fessel spotted the odd scene along Ocean Avenue, and posted the clip on TikTok, where she captioned it: “As seen in LA.

A new wood-clad cliffside home in Pacific Palisades, California, minutes from the Santa Monica mountains, has hit the market asking almost $23.3 million.

A callous act from a security guard working at The People Concern left a local unhoused man with 55 stitches and a lifetime of scarring.

Two mothers who met at Edison Language Academy have changed the conversation around Spanish-speaking literature in Los Angeles.

A Santa Monica police officer who was stabbed in an unprovoked attack on Saturday afternoon is out of the hospital.

The Federal Aviation Administration said the plane was a twin-engine Beechcraft 95 that crashed shortly after takeoff with five people on board. No details regarding the identities of the victims have been released but the plane was registered to a flight school out of Santa Monica Airport. There was no word on a possible cause of the crash.

For the first time, Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock and director Jan de Bont came together to discuss "Speed," which turns 30 this year. It got loud.

The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District asks Malibu voters to approve a $395 million bond through increased property taxes.

In a recent PlayStation Blog post, the top downloaded PS5 games for US/Canada and Europe were revealed. Although Black Myth: Wukong dropped a few ranks down from August, it still remains in the top five most downloaded PS5 games. Here is the full list for both US/Canada and Europe: